Portrait of an Old Man

Self-Portrait or Portrait of an Old Man is an oil-on-canvas painting by El Greco, likely dating between 1595 and 1600. The work's distinction as a self-portrait has been widely debated by scholars for over a century. Identification as a self-portrait is supported by the idea that the same figure appears several times in El Greco's oeuvre, aging alongside the artist. Critics of this work's identification as a self-portrait point to a lack of evidence to positively identify it as such. It shows the influence of Titian and Tintoretto, whose works El Greco studied in Venice. It is currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.